Monday, August 22, 2016

Olympic Moments

Two weeks of emotional highs and lows. I always want everyone to achieve personal bests and to fulfill their dreams. :)

I love the athletes who are thrilled and awed to be there despite knowing they have no realistic chance to medal.

I love the camaraderie among many of the athletes despite the fact they're competing against each other.

I love learning fascinating tidbits about sports I've loved for a long time and sports that are new to me.

For me, there were many highlights, but a few stood out:

Watching the Men's Rugby 7s Team from Fiji listen to their national anthem after winning their country's first ever Olympic gold medal

A young Brazilian man achieving a personal best and surprising the field by winning the Gold in pole vault

Simone Biles

Usain Bolt

Our Canadian athletes - medaled and otherwise. So many amazing stories, so many incredible moments

Our fabulous Canadian television coverage. Three stations worked together to ensure coverage of a bazillion events. At many times I could access 7 channels all showing different events. 7!!! And not all focused on Canadian athletes. Instead, we were able to see a huge range of sports showcasing many different countries. Fantastic!

The Olympics always give me hope that Humanity is taking steps to be better, to work together, and to take peace seriously. Let's hope that's true!

32 comments:

We were sad to see it end last night. Direct TV had multiple channels to view each day, so we saw a lot of different events.Big moments were watching Bolt win triple again, Ledecky crush the competition in swimming, our women's basketball team sweeping and setting Olympic records in points, and ending with our men's basketball team crushing Serbia!

I think your coverage in Canada was MUCH better than our network coverage here in the States! My daughter likes the equestrian parts and, really, she had to find it online. Great games...loved watching what I could!

I'm sorry to say I didn't watch much of the games, but keep up with it through online reports. I have to agree with you Jemi, the camaraderie among the athletes is always inspiring to me. Sounds like Canada had great coverage.

Congrats to Canadian teams :) We were quite successful here in Serbia too, given that we won medals in four out of seven total group sports :) including Waterpolo gold, basketball silver and wrestling gold. And our whole country is smaller than an average US city :)

I'm that oddball who's never watched the Olympics. I don't think I would've even known they were happening this year, if it weren't for everyone suddenly talking about it on Twitter, haha. Glad there were so many highlights for you! Canada's coverage of it sounds so impressive, wow...

I must admit I didn't catch a lot of the Olympics. But one of my favourite moments was seeing Rosie MacLennan win the trampoline gold. Her grandmother goes to my church, and I've had the honour of (very briefly) meeting Rosie. She is as lovely and humble as she looks on TV - a true champion!

I got snatches of it. We had a couple weeks of insanity around the Olympics, and we don't have our TV hooked up. Truth. We only watch what we seek out. Give the world a couple years and everything will be online. We're just ahead of the curve. =)

I've finally arrived, eh. Ah, the Olympics. Because of the time zone differences, I didn't see that much of the games. Even though I live in the UK, I will admit I was cheering on Canada more than I was for Britain.

Having said that, what I did watch that was my favourite moment had to be Mo Farah, winning gold in the 10,000 and 5,000 m race. That's two golds in two straight Olympics for him.

I enjoyed the Olympics. It is amazing to see people who have trained so hard compete. I felt happy for those who won and sad for those who had problems that got in the way (falls, accidents, false starts, etc.). Some of my favorites to watch were gymnastics, swimming, diving, and track and field. ~Jess